Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Look what I found!

This weekend I was helping my Mom and Dad paint a room in their new house. Mom and I took a break to pick up pizza. We stopped at a new antique store on our way back. Dad was so busy watching sports that he never knew we were gone so long...and the pizza was still warm! I bought these little napkin holders. I rolled up a miniature quilt in between the two of them. I might exchange the little quilt for pencils or paint brushes. Such decisions.

Lemon Bundt Cake

I bake two or three times a week. Almost always for our staff at our veterinary hospital because they work so hard for us. I am not much of a lemon fan but I could not keep out of this cake yesterday. It was so moist and delicious! Anytime you add extra oil, eggs, and pudding to a cake mix you can't go wrong but the lemon-lime soda was a bonus.

Lemon Bundt Cake

1 lemon cake mix

1 package instant lemon pudding mix

3/4 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs

1 cup lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage ( I used Sprite)

Directions1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan. (I sprayed the pan with Pam and then dusted the pan with flour.)2. In a large bowl, combine cake mix and pudding mix, then stir in the oil. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the lemon-lime soda.3. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, (I had to cook mine a lot longer.) or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool 15 min. in pan before inverting onto a plate.

Glaze: I made a glaze of powder sugar, ½ tsp vanilla, and milk.

In honor of St. Patrick Day this Sunday. We are giving a way our little St. Patrick Day quilt pattern on Friday. Leave a comment about anything green for a chance to win.

Love the little napkin holders-great find. Very cute little quilt. Green is the colour the farmers in New Zealand desperately want to see at the moment-much of the country has been declared a drought zone after a very dry summer.

I love green grass and green bushes. Hopefully I will soon be seeing everything turn green here. So tired of yucky old dead winter. Ready to see the clovers growing in the green grass again. And I need to rember to send my daughter in green clothing on St. Patricks day so she doesn't get pinched at school until she is black & blue and green with bruises. Thanks for the chance to enter for the Think Green St. Patricks quilt. conn_and_vans_mom(at)yahoo(dot)com